SHEFFIELD, Ala. -- A 27-year-old Colbert County man is accused of using a local radio "party line" to sell a utility trailer that belonged to someone else and was parked in a lot, authorities said today in a Florence TimesDaily newspaper report.

Jonathan Foster Reid of Muscle Shoals was charged with second-degree theft of property for allegedly selling a trailer that wasn't his back in September. Detectives told the TimesDaily the actual owner saw the trailer parked at a Tuscumbia residence, contacted police and they went to Tuscumbia to talk with the person who had the trailer.

The seller of the trailer had used a fake name, but Reid's home telephone number was on the bill of sale received by the Tuscumbia man, authorities said.